Overview Of Laser Target Designators

Since we all know that one of the main positive features of the laser target designator is that it allows to significantly reduce the time between the extraction of the weapon and the beginning of the fire. However, with long enough intensive training, a person with open sights is not worse, or even better, but this is only when there is an opportunity to use them. Insufficient illumination, not the most successful shelter and dozens of factors can affect the accuracy of shooting using open sighting devices, further make their use impossible, that’s exactly in such situations LCU is at the right time.

The use of firearms for self-defense by civilians is generally a separate story, since most people do not have enough proven skills to use open sights. In addition, we cannot forget that the laser target designator can be used successfully enough in the process of basic manipulation of weapons. So, many instructors point out that when instructing the shooter, which uses the beam of the laser pointer to control the weapon at the time of its retrieval and aiming at the target, observations of the deviation of the weapon from the point of aiming at the moment of trigger pulling and other manipulations, after show much more high results even without the laser sight, rather than those who practiced without this device. If you take in general, then LCU can be divided into built-in and removable. Built-in laser target designators are a rare phenomenon, since not all weapons manufacturers are at risk of depriving consumers of their choice. Most often built-in LCU can be found in pistols, less often in individual models of submachine guns. Removable laser target designators are produced for a variety of firearm specimens and can be installed on virtually any sample that has a seat under this device.

It is also possible to separate the laser target designators by placing the power button. So, laser target designators that have a power button on their body and do not have the ability to carry it to the handle or forearm of the weapon, in my humble opinion, are absolutely unsuitable for use. If, however, the inclusion of the laser sight occurs automatically, as soon as the hand of an arrow covers the handle of the weapon or the forearm, with the help of a small inclusion button taken out separately, then such samples have the right to life, whether they are built-in or removable. But this is purely our personal opinion.

The most interesting point is the placement of the laser target designator. In the overall samples of weapons laser fastened to the seats, which are either provided by the manufacturer, or added by the owner of the weapon. With short-barreled weapons, everything is much more interesting. Traditional is the location of the laser sight under the trunk, at the landing place made in the frame of the weapon. But not all manufacturers limit themselves to the ready and habitual solution.

So, you can meet laser target designators, which are fixed on the safety bracket, on the casing-shutter and even those that are screwed onto the barrel of the weapon or on the guide rod of the return spring when it is positioned under the barrel. But it is easy to guess that the optimal options for attaching laser sights are the most common, otherwise they would not have been common.